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Available as a sound recording and in braille format. Discussion notes also available.
Contents
- A Letter from Patrick White : Patrick White to Geoffrey and Ninette Dutton, 27.7.70, single work correspondence (p. 327-328)
- A Letter from Patrick White [to Ronald Waters, 8.1.71], single work correspondence (p. 328)
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Author as Performer : Performing Autobiographies
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media , vol. 15 no. 3 2019; (p. 326-339)'It may be argued that audiobooks should not substitute for reading, and authors—contrary to common conception—seldom are the best narrators of their own work. On the other hand, as the first-person narrative constitutes an inherent aesthetic property of the audiobook as a unique performance-based aural artefact, the audiobook versions of autobiographies can potentially amplify one’s aesthetic experience of a written personal history. Nonetheless, rather than focusing on so-called ‘standard’ autobiographies, this essay attends to the aural iterations of Barry Humphries’s pseudo-autobiographical writing. Overall, the aesthetic complexity in Humphries’s work is virtually labyrinthine and borderline-surreal. While there surely prevail far more complex first-person narratives, the complexities in Humphries’s case stem from the texts’ incarnation as audiobooks, putting into question not only the identity of the narrating protagonists, but also their very (non)-existence. They simultaneously exist as commonplace works of fiction written by Humphries, and as the quite literal memoirs of Humphries’s own fictional characters. They thus raise the question whether certain audiobooks might in fact negate the original printed work.'
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'The Rude Rudiments of Satire': Barry Humphries' Humour
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Serious Frolic : Essays on Australian Humour 2009; (p. 189-201) -
Barry Humphries
1998
single work
biography
— Appears in: An Eloquent Sufficiency : 50 Writers Talk about Life and Literature Over Lunch 1998; (p. 59-64) -
My Life as a Joke: Comic Australian Autobiography
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Current Tensions : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference : 6 - 11 July 1996 1996; (p. 57-63) -
Barry Humphries on the Couch
1994
single work
biography
— Appears in: Feasting with Panthers, or, the Importance of Being Famous 1994; (p. 276-289)
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Barry Leaves Us Longing for More
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 October 1992; (p. 19)
— Review of More Please 1992 single work autobiography -
Beneath the Dame
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 27 November no. 4678 1992; (p. 11)
— Review of More Please 1992 single work autobiography -
Collected Recollections
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , November no. 108 1992; (p. 33-34)
— Review of More Please 1992 single work autobiography -
Dame Edna's Son Tells All?
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 4 October 1992; (p. 116)
— Review of More Please 1992 single work autobiography -
Forecasts
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 72 no. 1029 1992; (p. 21)
— Review of More Please 1992 single work autobiography -
'The Rude Rudiments of Satire': Barry Humphries' Humour
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Serious Frolic : Essays on Australian Humour 2009; (p. 189-201) -
Just Wild about Barry
1992
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 12 October 1992; (p. 11) -
A Comic Whose Relevance is Just Everage
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 October 1992; (p. 13) -
Premier Contenders Line Up in the Literary Stakes
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 September 1993; (p. 9) -
My Life as a Joke: Comic Australian Autobiography
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Current Tensions : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference : 6 - 11 July 1996 1996; (p. 57-63)
Awards
- 1993 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Non-Fiction
- 1993 winner J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography
- Barry McKenzie [comic strip] 1964 single work extract graphic novel
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